Hewitt Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Clinic

About Us

The Hewitt Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Center specializes in orthopedic as well as neurological therapy for sports-related and other types of injuries. With their newly renovated space, and highly-skilled staff, they are poised to deal with many types of physical therapy treatments to help individuals lead a productive and pain-free life.

Eric “Wade” Loudamy, physical therapist at the Hewitt clinic, started on his own career path when he realized that he needed treatment himself. “That’s the reason I’m a physical therapist. I was talking to someone in 1992 who had had neck pains from an injury and he said he was helped by a physical therapist. I had been skiing and hurt my leg when falling and I wasn’t getting any better. After about six weeks, I went to a PT clinic and was evaluated by the therapist. I was a walk-in patient. She worked with my primary care physician during the evaluation and treatment over the next few weeks. I was in therapy for about 12 weeks for this sports injury and I had tissue damage around the fibula, which was fractured. After going through treatments myself, I got interested in pursuing a career in physical therapy.”

Professional, licensed staff

Rebecca Marek, PT; Gloria Blain, PTA; Karen Tate, CSR; E. Wade Loudamy, PT; Georgia Smith, PT

Today, Loudamy and his staff of seven at the Hewitt clinic treat a variety of injured patients that range from orthopedic to neurologic in nature. The clinic has five licensed staff (three licensed physical therapists and 2 licensed physical therapist assistants) and two support staff. “Ninety-five percent of our cases are orthopedic in nature including sports injuries, ‘weekend warrior’ injuries, car accidents, whiplash, neck pain, back pain, hip and knee pain and that sort,” Loudamy added. They see pre-op and post-op patients on referral by physicians, nurse practitioners and physicians’ assistants. Occasionally they have a walk in, Loudamy noted, but they assist those patients and work with their primary care physician during the assessment and treatment.

“We work with people as long as we need. I have seen patients that literally needed only one treatment. We have others that have intensive treatment for a short period, then come back occasionally for follow-up visits. A stroke patient or someone with a chronic condition that lasts long will need longer therapy sessions and treatment,” said Loudamy.

Renovated facility and advanced equipment
The center has undergone treatments of its own lately. The newly renovated, 5,000 square foot facility has had new carpet installed, freshly painted walls, new equipment including a manipulation table with more on order, and renovated walls and hallways for better access for staff to manage patients, all with the idea of allowing  better patient flow depending on a variety of therapies needed.

Loudamy said that it was time for the change. “We needed to allow for better patient flow depending on a variety of therapies each needed. The updated facility has helped with that. We also have expanded our licensed staff with Rebecca Marek, an experienced therapist, now working in our Hewitt clinic. With all these improvements, we are now we’re ready to take on more patients.”

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